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Originally Posted by crash
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This is a good bag for certain things, its comfortable without body armor and very compact. I'm actually using mine for a wilderness EMT course now, but if your on extended patrols or if you using and camelbak, or patrol pack or are wearing a ruck it becomes very cumbersome and heavy especially with as little as two IV bags over time it feels like a bag of bricks, not to mention if your already carrying an assault pack.
This bag really was intended more as a Direct Action Oh' sh!t bag, not a carry everyday on patrols type bag.
What types of missions are you doing what kind of gear are you carrying, injuries your seeing? I can give you some suggestions on packs that might work for you.
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Well we've been issued these bags as our primary Aidbags to take on patrol as an effort to reduce the weight we are carrying on patrol, since we do dismounted patrols in the mountains of Afghanistan from elevations of 3000ft up to 5000ft +, and distances of 5k or more usually round trip. We were issued Eagle Industries Plate Carriers, and I carry a standard combat load with a few pouches of medical equipment to treat on the spot trauma. As far as what I carry in my M9 I usually have 1-2 Cric Kits, 1 King LT, 2 Saline Lock Kits, about 4 Combat Gauze Packs, 4 Packs of Kerlex, 4 Ace Wraps or NAR ETD, 1 Abdominal Dressing, 4 Chest Seals- either Hyfins, or some HydroGel, I have 2 14G Needles, some cravats, 2in Tape, 2 Sam Splints, and 2 Bags of Hextend with IV Kits attached. I sometimes adjust what I carry and add to it depending on the mission, like one mission due to the possibility of delayed medevac I stuffed a Chest tube kit in my bag. I pretty much went off of the Ranger Medic Handbook as far as my standard load out of medical equipment to carry and adjusted from there. Like I said the issue isn't usually the weight, its the issue of making it work with Camelbak. Any help you can give will be appreciated Thanks.